Example sentences of "only [prep] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 2 | ‘ It transpired that the Archdiocese of New York had allowed the state to defame , prosecute and condemn me , not only without offering me any aid , but also keeping from my attorney any information which might have helped me . ’ |
| 3 | He is intent only on saving his own skin . |
| 4 | It is as if he is intent only on protecting his own interests . |
| 5 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 6 | I could see that only by changing our own personal worlds will we change the world at large . |
| 7 | Although the Crown avoided a large debt it did so only by reducing its own revenue and patronage and by imposing the serious social burdens of debasement . |
| 8 | Such a balancing act could keep his government in being only by increasing his own reputation for lack of principle . |
| 9 | Since it is only by understanding his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language that we can hope to see through questions and answers about ‘ Other Minds ’ , let us consider the positive side of his teaching first . |